Your love is king · Sade

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-29 and 31-48 -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
YOUR LOVE IS KING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 85.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 84-85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 4 sections: 78 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-48.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your love is king?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Your love is king hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Your love is king?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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